There's a little conflict of interest there--as soon as the word gets out that electronic filing companies and software vendors are selling return data to the IRS to assist in setting audit parameters, the electronic vendors are going to see lots less business and the IRS is going to be processing many more paper returns.
It's a storage device that Apple deliberately crippled. Reasonable people expect that storage devices aren't write only--Apple's crippleware makes the Shuffle so, and he fixed it, and I say bully for him.
Everybody knows MP3s are an illegal format. Of course they smacked you down. And that speech isn't in the public domain. You don't have a right to just take the rights owned by the Kennedy estate wholesale in the name of research. You can use a few seconds of the speech, in a legal format like WAV, under fair use. Anything longer requires permission from the current copyright holder.
Yes, I'm kidding, but I'm not surprised the pigfuckers went after you. The above is how those idiots "reason."
These kids aren't being prosecuted for cracking. They're being hung out to dry for making the martinet administrators and their eye-tee staff look like abject morons.
If I were someone involved in the prosecution, and these kids have their futures destroyed because of this electronic equivalent of TPing a house, I'd sleep with one eye open.
People who have had their lives unjustifiably ruined can snap pretty easily, and probably won't have any compunction killing. Karma can be a bitch.
That guy used more loaded language than an instructor at a rifle range. That example was towards the end of the article, and was just the one last dig. I doubt he saw the irony in the statement.
In the case of drugs and prostitution, those are victimless crimes and shouldn't be being prosecuted at all to the extent they involve consenting adults.
The argument that the images are a byproduct of a violent crime against another human being might have some merit, though. First, the newspaper publishers and television news anchors will need to be locked up for profiting from reporting using photographs of the victims of violent crime, though.
I'm all for prosecution of making and selling child porn. Prosecution for having it, though, is prosecuting thoughtcrime. And this is just the camel's nose underneath the tent--once it's okay to prosecute people for thinking about illegal things, we can expect less heinous thoughts to be prosecuted as well.
Yeah, that whole Tiananmen thing? Legitimate security operation. Requiring police registration to run a blog? Hardly a violation of free speech and necessary for the security of the state. One child policy? Can't have overpopulation. Persecution of Falun Gong and Christians? Necessary for the survival of the PRC. Great Firewall from Cisco and Yahoo? Just a works project to improve relations with the West and develop technology. ID to surf in Internet cafes? Required to prevent subversive reading.
So long as the playing field is level, and video taken by citizens is as admissible against agents of the state as the other way around, and is all taken in public places (or in private areas by the owner), that's fine.
Sad but true. You don't even have to look pimped out, you just have to look poor or out of place. That said, there's no excuse for boom cars in residential areas, and I support vigorous enforcement of noise pollution laws, but not harassment.
Ah, an intelligent reply from someone who's not a jerk who skimmed the article, saw what they thought to be similarities, and made an "RTFA" post. Kudos:).
I agree that the two or more angles, given the difficulty of editing, would indeed lend a degree of authenticity not available from a bunch of people with the same footage. I still believe that a trusted third party who could provide expert witnesses to swear that the photographs or video had been uploaded at a certain time and not tampered with since they left the camera would be even more of a boon to court cases involving police or protesters' violation actions.
Not really. Cryptographic "security" as mentioned probably means security of the data in transit, not verification attestation. No trusted-third party attestation is mentioned. It's not inconceivable that a large number of people pushing an agenda could also have the same picture on their hard drives after an event.
How does that provide trusted third party attestation? A bunch of people who happen to have the same image, while perhaps more convincing than only one person, isn't "trusted third party attestation." Perhaps those who will criticize posts would do well to understand what they're criticizing before commenting.
One danger is that the results of the riot-cams will just be dismissed as doctored film. There is also the risk of confiscation.
What's needed is the ability to take pictures or video, have it transmitted wirelessly to a trusted third party who can attest as to content and time stamp. (I've pondered this sort of system in vehicles, so that a driver could record a "Driving While Black" type incident, and be able to provide evidence to his attorney that would be more likely to stand up in a civil suit.)
Such a system would also require cameras that provide tamper-resistant digital signatures for each frame. This wouldn't make doctoring impossible, but should quiet some of the objections to this sort of evidence.
It's has been and will continue to be my position that people sufficiently illiterate to confuse the words niggardly or reneged with a racial slur are the ones who need to be removed. Changing the language to avoid offending the ignorant is NOT a good thing.
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I doubt they could raise enough money to cover the difference in cost between the OEM deal they get for Windows and the retail they'd be paying if they bundled Firefox.
Sure you will until the manager, who unless you're sleeping with him, will start to wonder why you need so many new programs installed.
While no one was advocating "jackbooted" administration, the fact is that most users don't need to install software. If you want to do IT, go work for IT. There's no room in real business for wannabes mucking up the works.
And then every time some legitimate piece of software needs to be installed, you get a phone call. Sounds like fun! And how does that work with interpreters/VM environments like Perl and Java? The executable is the interpreter, and the spyware could run under it. Of course, it is a power-tripping admin's wet dream, though, and will work wonderfully until the CFO tries to upgrade WeatherBug:).
Anyways, I know it's tongue in cheek, but that's really not a bad idea. Not many will have the chutzpah to say they need Slashdot for work. Those, you promote:).
I pretty much only borrow movies from the library, or rent them, for precisely that reason. At home, I'm guaranteed a good seat. At the theatre, I have to choose between my party being crammed into the center of a row or separated over having to watch 20 minutes of non-movie related ads and an admonition to respect copyrights. That's a tough choice.
This means the games are going to be free now, right? Since I'm sure as hell not going to pay money to have ads shoved in my face, thank you very much.
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There's a little conflict of interest there--as soon as the word gets out that electronic filing companies and software vendors are selling return data to the IRS to assist in setting audit parameters, the electronic vendors are going to see lots less business and the IRS is going to be processing many more paper returns.
It's a storage device that Apple deliberately crippled. Reasonable people expect that storage devices aren't write only--Apple's crippleware makes the Shuffle so, and he fixed it, and I say bully for him.
More likely, it's going to be up ours, if this isn't resisted fiercely, right now.
Yes, I'm kidding, but I'm not surprised the pigfuckers went after you. The above is how those idiots "reason."
If I were someone involved in the prosecution, and these kids have their futures destroyed because of this electronic equivalent of TPing a house, I'd sleep with one eye open.
People who have had their lives unjustifiably ruined can snap pretty easily, and probably won't have any compunction killing. Karma can be a bitch.
At Taco posting an article about intrusive ads. The future is here, it's the Slashvertisement (TM). Oh, the humanity.
It did. It finished in about three seconds.
That guy used more loaded language than an instructor at a rifle range. That example was towards the end of the article, and was just the one last dig. I doubt he saw the irony in the statement.
In the case of drugs and prostitution, those are victimless crimes and shouldn't be being prosecuted at all to the extent they involve consenting adults. The argument that the images are a byproduct of a violent crime against another human being might have some merit, though. First, the newspaper publishers and television news anchors will need to be locked up for profiting from reporting using photographs of the victims of violent crime, though.
I'm all for prosecution of making and selling child porn. Prosecution for having it, though, is prosecuting thoughtcrime. And this is just the camel's nose underneath the tent--once it's okay to prosecute people for thinking about illegal things, we can expect less heinous thoughts to be prosecuted as well.
Yeah, that whole Tiananmen thing? Legitimate security operation. Requiring police registration to run a blog? Hardly a violation of free speech and necessary for the security of the state. One child policy? Can't have overpopulation. Persecution of Falun Gong and Christians? Necessary for the survival of the PRC. Great Firewall from Cisco and Yahoo? Just a works project to improve relations with the West and develop technology. ID to surf in Internet cafes? Required to prevent subversive reading.
Yeah, no oppression there at all.
So long as the playing field is level, and video taken by citizens is as admissible against agents of the state as the other way around, and is all taken in public places (or in private areas by the owner), that's fine.
Sad but true. You don't even have to look pimped out, you just have to look poor or out of place. That said, there's no excuse for boom cars in residential areas, and I support vigorous enforcement of noise pollution laws, but not harassment.
I agree that the two or more angles, given the difficulty of editing, would indeed lend a degree of authenticity not available from a bunch of people with the same footage. I still believe that a trusted third party who could provide expert witnesses to swear that the photographs or video had been uploaded at a certain time and not tampered with since they left the camera would be even more of a boon to court cases involving police or protesters' violation actions.
Not really. Cryptographic "security" as mentioned probably means security of the data in transit, not verification attestation. No trusted-third party attestation is mentioned. It's not inconceivable that a large number of people pushing an agenda could also have the same picture on their hard drives after an event.
How does that provide trusted third party attestation? A bunch of people who happen to have the same image, while perhaps more convincing than only one person, isn't "trusted third party attestation." Perhaps those who will criticize posts would do well to understand what they're criticizing before commenting.
What's needed is the ability to take pictures or video, have it transmitted wirelessly to a trusted third party who can attest as to content and time stamp. (I've pondered this sort of system in vehicles, so that a driver could record a "Driving While Black" type incident, and be able to provide evidence to his attorney that would be more likely to stand up in a civil suit.)
Such a system would also require cameras that provide tamper-resistant digital signatures for each frame. This wouldn't make doctoring impossible, but should quiet some of the objections to this sort of evidence.
It's has been and will continue to be my position that people sufficiently illiterate to confuse the words niggardly or reneged with a racial slur are the ones who need to be removed. Changing the language to avoid offending the ignorant is NOT a good thing.
Just don't upload the Koran into it, OK, guys?
I doubt they could raise enough money to cover the difference in cost between the OEM deal they get for Windows and the retail they'd be paying if they bundled Firefox.
While no one was advocating "jackbooted" administration, the fact is that most users don't need to install software. If you want to do IT, go work for IT. There's no room in real business for wannabes mucking up the works.
And then every time some legitimate piece of software needs to be installed, you get a phone call. Sounds like fun! And how does that work with interpreters/VM environments like Perl and Java? The executable is the interpreter, and the spyware could run under it. Of course, it is a power-tripping admin's wet dream, though, and will work wonderfully until the CFO tries to upgrade WeatherBug :).
Anyways, I know it's tongue in cheek, but that's really not a bad idea. Not many will have the chutzpah to say they need Slashdot for work. Those, you promote :).
I pretty much only borrow movies from the library, or rent them, for precisely that reason. At home, I'm guaranteed a good seat. At the theatre, I have to choose between my party being crammed into the center of a row or separated over having to watch 20 minutes of non-movie related ads and an admonition to respect copyrights. That's a tough choice.
This means the games are going to be free now, right? Since I'm sure as hell not going to pay money to have ads shoved in my face, thank you very much.